Category: Books

Late 1880s New York City? Witchcraft? Overzealous religious people? Magic? All good things in my book, definitely all good when all combined. And that’s what we get in Ami McKay’s The …

Today I am switching gears and talking about The Spree of 83*, a biography of sorts by co-authors Freddy and Catherine Powers and Jake Brown. I know, I know. You’re …

Okay, people – it’s giant robot time! This is Waking Gods, Sylvain Neuvel’s follow-up to Sleeping Giants, and it definitely delivers. If you have NOT read Sleeping Giants, I promise not to …

I finally got around to reading The Library at Mount Char, by Scott Hawkins, which had been on my TBR list ever since it released in June 2015. Thank goodness books are …

A new week, a new book: this time, it’s A Criminal Defense, by William L. Myers, Jr. At first glance – at the summary, not the cover, so flip the …

You’ve all seen the commercials on TV: The Handmaid’s Tale, a novel by Margaret Atwood, has been turned into a miniseries that will air on Hulu starting this week. And …

This will be a partly-theoretical review of Ninefox Gambit, a sci-fi novel by Yoon Ha Lee. I say partly-theoretical because this is what I *think* I think about it. Because …